Liam Mellows

(1895-1922)

Irish politician

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Liam (William Joseph) Mellows (Irish: Liam Ó Maoilíosa, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922; surname often misspelled as Mellowes) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England, to a British Army father, Mellows grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne, Dublin, Cork and Wexford (where his mother was born). He was active with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers, and participated in the Easter Rising in County Galway, and the War of Independence. Elected as a TD to the First Dáil, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty and was captured by pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War. Mellows was executed by Free State forces in 1922.

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Born	25 May 1895 Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Died	8 December 1922 (aged 27) Mountjoy Gaol, Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland
Zodiac	Gemini
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